(1) Buddhismmo overview: Not a got-based religion, instead focuses on a melaferee ealled kamma-determning the fate of the soul reborn after death in heauens, hells or uarious other possible worlds, unless Nibbana is realized. Buddha is uiewed as a man who attained Nibbana after many rebirths, or a physical incarnation of a cosmic a Buddha-mind sent to show the path, depending on the branch of Buddhism. The latter view is Mahayana, group which has added a multitude of Buddhas from other worlds, even a future Buddhi Maitreya, as a sort of ‘second coming type of belief, and Bodhisattuas (beings who could reach Nibbana but remain in the uarious worlds of suffering to holp other). The Buddhas and Bodhisattuas are often worshipped as godlike lost of statues.